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The Entoto Foundation is dedicated to helping Ethiopians gain access to medical care and treatment that is otherwise not available to them. The money we raise helps pay for critical medical equipment, supplies and medicine as well as the training of health care personnel in Ethiopia. When essential medical procedures or treatments are not available within Ethiopia, the Entoto Foundation provides funds and logistical support for patients to obtain health care abroad.
This true and all too common story puts the goals of the Entoto Foundation into clear focus: Fentaw Teklu was a husband and father of six young children whom he had hoped to see grow up to honorable adulthood and begin families of their own. This modest, everyday hope is shared by men and women around the world; a dream that transcends country, religion, and race. Unfortunately for Fentaw and his family, he would not live to see his dream realized. Today, Fentaw’s children must carry only the memory of their father with them, and, when the time comes, can only reveal him to their children in the form of stories and pictures. Fentaw, at the age of 45, died of tuberculosis, a disease that is preventable and treatable in much of the western world. Not only did a fairly young man lose his life, but a once self–sufficient family lost their sole provider because of inadequate health care. With just $21 per year spent on health care per capita in Ethiopia, the chance for what we consider a normal life, a life whetted by hopes for one’s children, is beyond the reach of so many like Fentaw.